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Helmet/ Hard Hat Goggles

The document outlines various personal protective equipment (PPE) including helmets, goggles, safety shoes, and gowns, emphasizing their importance in protecting employees from head injuries, eye hazards, and foot injuries in hazardous work environments. It details the different classes of hard hats and their specific protections against impacts and electrical hazards. Additionally, it discusses ear protection options and the need for proper fitting to ensure effectiveness.

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Helmet/ Hard Hat Goggles

The document outlines various personal protective equipment (PPE) including helmets, goggles, safety shoes, and gowns, emphasizing their importance in protecting employees from head injuries, eye hazards, and foot injuries in hazardous work environments. It details the different classes of hard hats and their specific protections against impacts and electrical hazards. Additionally, it discusses ear protection options and the need for proper fitting to ensure effectiveness.

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Helmet/ Hard hat

Goggles. This tight-fitting eye protection


[Link] a safety helmet or hard hat is one of the
completely covers the eyes, eye sockets, and
easiest ways to protect an employee’s head from
the facial area immediately surrounding the
injury. Hard hats can protect employees from impact
eyes and provide protection from impact,
and penetration hazards as well as from electrical
dust and splashes. Some goggles will fit over
shock and burn hazards.
corrective lenses.
[Link] must ensure that their employees wear
head protection if any of the following apply: Laser safety goggles. These specialty
goggles protect against intense
[Link] might fall from above and strike them on the concentrations of light produced by lasers.
head. The type of laser safety goggles an employer
[Link] might bump their heads against fixed objects, chooses will depend upon the equipment and
such as exposed pipes or beams; or operating conditions in the workplace.
[Link] is a possibility of accidental head contact with
electrical hazards.

Class A hard hats provide impact and penetration


resistance along with limited voltage protection (up to
2,200 volts).
Class B hard hats provide the highest level of
protection against electrical hazards, with high-voltage
shock and burn protection (up to 20,000 volts). They
also provide protection from impact and penetration
hazards by flying/falling objects.
Class C hard hats provide lightweight comfort and
impact protection but offer no protection from
electrical hazards. Ear Plugs/ Earmuffs
[Link]-use earplugs are made Gowns
Safety Shoes/Boots of waxed cotton, foam, silicone Protection from
[Link] shoes have impact-resistant rubber or fiberglass wool. They
toes and heat-resistant soles that are self-forming and, when
protect the feet against hot work properly inserted, they work as [Link] extremes;
surfaces common in roofing, paving well as most molded earplugs. Hot splashes from molten
metals and other hot liquids;
and hot metal industries. [Link]-formed or molded [Link] impacts from
[Link] metal insoles of some safety earplugs are individually fitted tools, machinery and
shoes protect against puncture by a professional and can be materials;
wounds. disposable or reusable. [Link] chemicals.
Reusable plugs should be
[Link] shoes may also be designed cleaned after each use.
to be electrically conductive to Examples of body
prevent the buildup of static [Link] require a perfect protection include
electricity in areas with the potential seal around the ear. Glasses, laboratory coats, coveralls,
for explosive atmospheres or facial hair, long hair or facial vests, jackets, aprons,
nonconductive to protect employees movements such as chewing surgical gowns and full
from workplace electrical hazards. may reduce the protective body suits.
value of earmuffs.

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